Rhesus monkey experiment
- Surrogate mother experiment
Separated the newborn baby monkey from its mother, and let it live with flannel mother and wire mother. The wire mother has food, but the flannel has no food. The little monkey prefers the flannel mother even though it gets food from the wire mother. The flannel mother has traps on her body to attack the little monkey, and the little monkey will still embrace the flannel mother without hesitation. Experiments have proved that the reason why monkeys like their mother is not because the mother gave milk, but because of: contact and relationship. Love comes from touch, not food! - In the breeding experiment
, the baby monkeys who grew up living with the flannel mother and the wire mother lost their spouse and mating ability. Even after forced insemination, they would not raise children. I have raised little monkeys, but I don't have any experience in raising them. - In the long-term lack of mother experiment,
the baby monkeys were not allowed to see their mothers for 8 months before they were born, and they were put in the same cage after 8 months. (similar to autism, depression).
Put these little monkeys in the experiment into the group of monkeys. The little monkeys in the experiment could not join the group at all. More little monkeys showed mental disorders, similar to human mental illness. The serious one directly bit off one of its own arms.
There is a saying that some people are healing their childhood all their lives, and some people are being healed by their childhood all their lives.
In Harlow's day, the 1950s, influenced by behaviorism, it was widely believed that nurturing was more important than love. However, Harlow's experiment proved that parents' raising of children should not only stop at the level of food and clothing. To make children grow up healthily, parents need to provide more positive stimuli, such as hugging and caressing.
Through experiments, it is not difficult to see that compared with feeding, comfortable physical contact is an important part of the formation of attachment. The intimate relationship with relatives helps children to finally establish a secure attachment, which is the basis for ensuring the healthy development of children's mental health .
Although Harlow's rhesus monkey experiment seems a bit cruel now, but at the time when behaviorism was in power, Harlow did bring people a different perspective, allowing people to think about how to raise our children.
Twins climbing stairs experiment
It takes time to mature
Two 10-month-old children A and B, A performed a 10-minute ladder climbing experiment every day, while B did not perform such training. After 6 weeks, it took A only 26 seconds to climb the 5 steps, while B took 45 seconds. From the 7th week, B was trained for two consecutive weeks of climbing ladders. As a result, B surpassed A and climbed 5 steps in just 10 seconds.
The enlightenment from this experiment is: education should respect the actual level of the child, wait patiently before the child is immature, do not violate the natural law of the child's development, and do not violate the internal "timetable" of the child's development to artificially speed up through training child development.
Bobo doll experiment
To develop, we need to find role models to learn from
Does the violence children see on TV, in movies, and in games lead them to develop aggressive behavior?
This is a hot topic today, and it was a hot topic 50 years ago. Back then, a psychologist conducted an experiment to determine how children learned to be aggressive by viewing violent images.
The answer is: Children learn the behaviors of adults.
Teaching by example requires a sense of meaning and a good relationship. Young children can learn aggressive behaviors by imitating adults by observing them. At the same time, they can change bad habits and even overcome their fears by imitating "role models". "Role models" have amazing the power of.
In the process of imitation, children can understand the causal relationship between things through imitation, which gives imitation a sense of meaning, which has a huge relationship with the close relationship between parents and children. Children will only imitate the successful actions of adults. If they find that attacking or imitating will bring punishment, the children will stop continuing to imitate behaviors that will bring them harm, but it may be a short-term effect. They will only be closer to themselves at first. People, so the key to teaching by example is that parents first experience it personally, so that children can truly experience it, pay attention to your words and deeds, children will observe the results of these behaviors, and children will explore the connections inside.
In China, due to the influence of traditional Confucianism, we have been taught to honor our parents and respect our elders since we were young, especially the emphasis on obeying authority. As a result, many people have never really felt an equal relationship since they were young. Many children’s so-called respect for their elders is just out of fear of authority. Parents, when you let your child do anything, do you want her to learn well or just to enjoy your "absolute domination" as an adult?
The times are changing. Parents must reset their goals, establish respect based on equal personality, and respect without fear and alienation. If it is mixed with the desire to control, it will be difficult for children to accept your education sincerely.
Children need to experience the abstract moral quality of "respect" through intentional or unintentional deliberate practice, instead of imitating in preaching such as "I know a lot, what do you know, you are my child and you must listen to me" . If you feel that your child is not easy to discipline, please examine your words and deeds in time, and notice whether your emotions are affected by your low inner self-esteem.
Car Accident Witnesses Experiment
Induction, panic, etc. will make people "brain fill" memory details.
People can easily remember the content of the information, but it is easy to forget the source of the information, so it is almost impossible for people to judge whether the details that pop up in their minds are their own personal experience, or come from the literature, film and television works they have seen before. Especially under the influence of emotions, this kind of associative activity will lead to splicing and reconstruction of a large number of memory fragments, commonly known as "brain supplementation", and these brain supplementary events may never have happened at all.
Car accident witnessing field experiment: adults' memory is also unreliable
An important mechanism leading to the generation of false memories: verbal cues at the time of questioning have extremely profound effects on memory. Words such as "collision", "collision", "collision", and "top" describe car accidents. People estimate that the average speed of the car is very different, and the details such as broken glass are very different.
False memory implants are ubiquitous
When you see a certain memory content, your brain will automatically associate a series of memory content, just like pulling out a series of peanuts, but you are not aware of this process at all. For example: "Drink Wanglaoji for fear of getting angry", simple, rude, repeated, years of indoctrination, brainwashing, create a certain impression in your mind, thereby changing your concept of a certain thing. Ads don’t require you to actively pay attention to them, just a little attention and they translate into a deep feeling.
What we have is not our own unique memory, but a group memory that is co-generated, co-updated, and co-stored through interactions with countless netizens. In this process, we will automatically integrate the memories we got from the Internet and overwrite our original unique memories, and we may not be aware of this process at all.